| Fed Officials Split Over How to Read Economic Signals
- Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s July meeting showed policymakers grappling with a slowing labor market and inflation that remains above the central bank’s target.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:57:58 +0000
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| A.I. Might Change the World Without Remaking It
- Artificial intelligence may change the world but probably won’t remake it.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:53:37 +0000
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| Mamdani, Skeptical of Casinos, Won’t Try to Block Them in New York City
- Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee, said that while he still had doubts about city casinos, he respected the views of voters who supported them.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:48:44 +0000
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| Two Big Law Firms Said to Be Doing Free Work for Trump Administration
- After making deals with the president to avoid punitive executive orders, Paul Weiss and Kirkland & Ellis are helping the Commerce Department.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:45:45 +0000
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| Camp Mystic Parents Demand Changes Before More Children Are Lost
- A Texas Legislative Committee heard for the first time from the parents who demanded better flood warning systems, better training and equipment for camps near the river.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:34:22 +0000
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| With Moves on West Bank and Gaza City, Israel Defies Global Outcry
- Israel approved new settlements in the occupied West Bank, while its troops have reached the outskirts of Gaza City. The developments raise questions about the viability of a cease-fire proposal.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:24:32 +0000
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| Israel Approves Settlements, a Blow to Faded Hopes for a Palestinian State
- The long-stalled project near Jerusalem, known as E1, further fragments West Bank lands envisioned as part of a Palestinian state, advancing a goal of Israeli hard-liners.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:09:41 +0000
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| Obama Endorses Newsom’s Redistricting Proposal as a ‘Responsible Approach’
- The former president suggested that Democrats opposing G.O.P. efforts in Texas and elsewhere should advance their own gerrymandering plans.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:09:11 +0000
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| Gazans Fear Looming Israeli Operation
- Israel’s plan to invade Gaza City, the most populous city in the northern Gaza Strip, has forced many families to consider uprooting themselves.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:05:23 +0000
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| New Malaria Case Prompts Testing of Mosquitoes in New Jersey
- A Morris County resident may have contracted the illness locally, which would be the first known instance in decades of someone being exposed while in the state.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:53:27 +0000
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| Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91
- In 1962, she started a software company at her dining room table with a revolutionary idea: to create a place where women could find a work-life balance.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:50:28 +0000
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| Trump’s Tariffs Push U.S. Businesses Into ‘Survival Mode’
- A 90-day pause on additional tariffs on China offers no relief to American companies already facing extraordinarily high import taxes imposed by President Trump.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:37:15 +0000
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| Deportation of 6-Year-Old Puts Spotlight on ICE’s Detention of Families
- Immigration authorities have detained about 50 children younger than 18 in the New York City area since January. At least 38 of them have been deported.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:29:39 +0000
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| NYC Judge Denies Trump Administration Request to Unseal Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts
- The judge said that the papers contained testimony from a single F.B.I. agent and that far more information about the case was held in Justice Department files.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:57:39 +0000
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| Senate Adds Guardrails in an Effort to Force Trump to Obey Spending Bills
- Leaders of the Appropriations Committee are trying to tighten up funding legislation to give the Trump administration less leeway to refuse to spend federal money.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:52:46 +0000
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| More Adams Associates and Supporters Are Said to Face Corruption Charges
- Among those expected to surrender in the coming days is a close friend of Mayor Eric Adams whom the mayor installed in a powerful city position.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:15:13 +0000
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| Oklahoma Proposes ‘America First Test’ for Teachers From New York and California
- The test is meant to filter out teachers who hold views “antithetical” to Oklahoma values.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:06:44 +0000
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| Social Media Figure Is Killed by Stray Bullet in Road Rage Episode, Police Say
- Yarely Hermosillo, 27, was in a car struck by a bullet fired by a man who was arguing with another driver in Glendale, Ariz., the police said.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:51:45 +0000
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| Judge Halts Texas Law Mandating the Ten Commandments in School
- The state law had said public schools would have to display the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous” location in every classroom in Texas by Sept. 1.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:49:45 +0000
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| How Ian Fleming and His Spy Scheme Inspired a Broadway Show
- The musical “Operation Mincemeat” tells the story of an absurd feat of deception dreamed up by this spy-turned-novelist. His real acts of espionage were even wilder.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:44:37 +0000
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